Search for associated production of the Higgs boson in the H → WW channel with a fully leptonic final state

A search for the Higgs boson in the WH and ZH associated production modes, with H→WW(∗) and a fully leptonic final state with electrons or muons, is performed using the data collected in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The dataset corresponds to 20.7 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The result obtained with the 2012 data is combined with a search for WH, with H→WW(∗) and a fully leptonic final state with electrons or muons, corresponding to 4.7 fb−1 of data recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV.